Inside her Offal World tour, Singer Hits Cali Desert To Sing 'Bathwater' With Reunited Band
Olivia Rodrigo thrilled fans on the first weekend of the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival with a surprise appearance during the No Doubt reunion show. It was Rodrigo's first appearance at Coachella and the band's first performance together in nearly a decade.
Rodrigo, who is between her Offal world tour, came running backstage to join frontwoman Gwen Stefani on “Bathwater,” a bubbly ska hit from No Doubt's 2000 album Return of Saturn. Rodrigo cited the album as a major influence on her songwriting.
“Gwen sang about being a woman moving around this world with details I'd never heard before in music,” Rodrigo recently said of Stefani in an interview with Nylon. “There's so much heart in every word she says, and every song sounds like it's ripped out of the diary of the coolest girl you know.”
The Grammy-winning pop rock princess paid extra homage in a circa-1996 Stefani outfit: Converse sneakers, navy utility pants, and a white No Doubt shirt with red bra straps peeking out. The two divas laughed and hugged backstage, leaving the band to entertain the crowd with a reggae-rock interlude.
This was No Doubt's first return to the stage since performing at KABOO in Del Mar, California in 2015. Coachella has long been the band's reunion ground, and they'll go on full tours next, but it has yet to determine if No Doubt will follow the same path. The band return to the festival next weekend to perform on Saturday 20th April.
No Doubt served as the final act on the main stage before Tyler, the Creator headlined later Saturday night. It's been nine years since the band performed live.
Rodrigo — who's no stranger to bringing her own surprise guests on stage (during her four-day stint at Madison Square Garden, she brought out Noah Kahan and also Jewel) wasn't the only surprise guest at Weekend One . Lana Del Rey brought out Billie Eilish for a duet and Shakira surprised fans when she announced a world tour during a surprise pop-in during Bizarrap's set on Friday. Meanwhile, Saturday featured a surprise set from Billie Eilish and friends, and Feid took the stage with Blxst.
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